{"id":110134,"date":"2025-10-31T05:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110134\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:42:11","slug":"meta-defies-ai-spending-gloom-with-its-record-breaking-bond-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/110134\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Defies AI Spending Gloom With Its Record-Breaking Bond Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/META:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Meta Platforms Inc.<\/a> found record-shattering demand for its bond sale on Thursday even as its shares plunged, in a sign that bond investors are looking past any concerns about its artificial-intelligence spending plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The company sold $30 billion of bonds, the largest high-grade US note sale since 2023, drawing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-30\/meta-s-jumbo-bond-sale-draws-record-125-billion-of-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">most ever <\/a>orders at $125 billion. That came on a day where Meta\u2019s shares dropped as much as 14%, after it had posted quarterly earnings late Wednesday, and stock investors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-29\/meta-projects-increasing-expenses-takes-one-time-tax-charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">recoiled<\/a> at how much the company planned to spend on AI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta Platforms Inc. found record-shattering demand for its bond sale on Thursday even as its shares plunged, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,910,12684,1289,19983,5399,4568,1702,41909,32470,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-110134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bonds","tag-capital-markets","tag-cash-flow","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-debt","tag-earnings","tag-infrastructure","tag-mark-elliot-zuckerberg","tag-meta-platforms-inc-class-a","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}